Thread: Is it just me or has this site gotten really slow?
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Old 05-30-2025, 11:01 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef View Post
Absent any hard evidence, but as someone with my ear to the ground about other sites, I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and assume that those "guests" are actually AI bot agents that are trying to index and gobble up any useful information that they can about the site.

This is happening quite frequently elsewhere, see:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/d...ire-countries/

And since MobileRead is a well-known trove of technical information about e-readers, tablets, etc, it would not surprise me if AI is targeting it for consumption in the same way that they would, say, Reddit.

Just a theory. Like I said, I have nothing to back this up other than a hunch. There hasn't been a recent news event (like the Kindle D&T removal) that would suddenly force a bunch of refugees to this site looking for information.
Currently Active Users: 126788 (33 members and 126755 guests)

That's just too many guests to be any sort of coincidence. But how are there so many AI bots out there?
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